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...wife, who had not visited the South since she left Texarkana, Texas, as a child of seven: "I was so impressed with it and liked it so well that I decided this is it." Next month the Westmorlands will move into a three-bedroom, split-level house in Decatur, Ga...
...some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift by building its first U.S-based integrated assembly plant there...
...small tobacco farmer in Virginia, Fuqua could not afford to go to college, but he did read "books, books, books" on radio and finance. At age 21 he persuaded backers to start a new radio station in Augusta, Ga., for him to run. J.B. soon talked the owner of a bottling company into selling out for a share of future profits. Wheeling and dealing, he was able to buy his own radio station in 1949; by 1953 he had branched into TV. The profits allowed him to use his spare time to serve four terms in the Georgia legislature...
Union Organizer Milford Allen stood for hours under a broiling sun one day early this month, handing "You Need a Union Card" leaflets to workers at the Barnesville, Ga., knitting mill of the William Carter Co., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of children's clothing. "This union stuff is shit," snarled one worker as he threw his leaflet away. Said another: "I'd like it, but I can't take it. They'd lay me off." That night, at an organizing meeting that drew all of 24 union sympathizers (20 of them black), Allen in effect agreed...
...years ago, Frix used his $5,000 savings account to make a down payment on 300 acres in Talbotton Ga. about 90 miles south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part...